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Fresh start: DJ Bell grew up, then helped rebuild Cowan wrestling

MUNCIE, Ind. — DJ Bell wasn't a bad kid at Central. He had plenty of friends and was on the varsity wrestling team. His grades weren't bad, either, making A's, B's and C's. But after his sophomore year, the bigger picture – aka the rest of his life – started to come into view.

So Bell, a teenager, made a grown man decision. He told his mother that he needed a change and wanted to transfer schools.

"That was the most mature thing that I think my kid could’ve ever said," Bell's mother, Quisha, said. "And for him to come to me and say he needed that change, that’s something that I had to do.